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Originally Posted by Hanka
I wrote, in Czech are wolfdogs what are working character. Is not my mistake, in your country they are not.
Is it still the same working breed like in country(ies) of origin?
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Hello Hanka,
I think two things are mixed up.
Firstly working dogs, secondly sports dogs.
A livestock guarding dog like a Cuvac, doing nothing apart from lying 24 hours more or less motionless within a flock is definitely a working dog.
A CSW in private hands doing defense work or tracking is nothing more than a sports dog.
Even if dog and owner are training on a very high level, like IPO 3.
You rightly mentioned that the CSW's were used as man stoppers at the iron curtain, like their "brothers" the Black Russian Terriers in Soviet gulags.
Fortunately both breeds don't have to do this kind of "work" anymore nowadays.
So we have to be very careful if we speak of the CSW as a working breed in the original sense.
This has nothing to do with the "work", I call it sport, you mean.
By the way, do you consider the BRT as a working breed?
One word to the bonitation.
I agree absolutely with you that it is necessary (fortunately we have the opportunity to do this twice a year in Germany), but the character test is highly trainable and I saw quite a lot CSW's in your country, passing the test, but not being able to cope with things of the daily routine, like standing within a crowd of people.
Tail up to the chin.
But that's another topic.
Michael